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Dibyendu Banerjee
04/05/2021
The weka, also known as Maori Hen or Woodhen is one of New Zealand’s iconic large flightless sturdy brown birds with red eyes, strong legs, and reduced wings.
2085
Dibyendu Banerjee
02/05/2021
Soaring 2722 feet (829.8 m) high and piercing the sky of Dubai like a rocket, the needle-shaped Burj Khalifa or Khalifa Tower is the tallest skyscraper in t ...
3375
Dibyendu Banerjee & Sudipta Banerjee
30/04/2021
The pattern of typical winds that we get in a local area is called a local wind. The local winds originate due to the change in air pressure, caused by the ...
3105
Dibyendu Banerjee
29/04/2021
Reckoned as an icon of the Swinging Sixties, and termed as the most poetic of all actresses by Al Pacino, Julie Frances Christie was born on 14 April 1940.
2376
Dibyendu Banerjee
26/04/2021
Visiting the spacious halls of the Uffizi Gallery, one of the famous art museums in the world, is an experience of a lifetime. The Uffizi Gallery in Florenc ...
2049
Dibyendu Banerjee
24/04/2021
The opulent Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, set on an outcrop jutting over the Atlantic Ocean with its 689 feet (210 m) tall minaret, the second ta ...
3036
Dibyendu Banerjee
22/04/2021
Phryne, the daughter of Epicles from Thespiae in Boeotia, was born around 371 BC, the year Thebes razed Thespiae, not long after the battle of Leuctra and e ...
2364
Dibyendu Banerjee
20/04/2021
Located in the heart of Bangkok, the capital and most populous city of Thailand, the spectacular Grand Palace is a complex of several dazzling buildings.
2193
Dibyendu Banerjee
17/04/2021
The majestic Dresden Frauenkirche or the Church of Our Lady in Dresden was constructed on the rubbles of the 18th century Baroque Lutheran Church, which col ...
2928
Dibyendu Banerjee
15/04/2021
The Firingi Kalibari, located in the Bowbazar area in Calcutta, is dedicated to Siddheswari Kali. Goddess Kali, the chief of the Mahavidyas or the ten aspe ...
2177
Dibyendu Banerjee
12/04/2021
In the middle of gritty downtown Philadelphia stands a fortress, The Eastern State Penitentiary, which was once the most famous and expensive prison in the ...
2371
Dibyendu Banerjee
10/04/2021
Considered one of the finest squares in the world and certainly the prime attraction of Venice, the 500 feet (180 m) long and 230 feet (70 m) wide Piazza Sa ...
2372
Dibyendu Banerjee
08/04/2021
Located on a small island off the southeast coast of Jamaica, Port Royal was founded by the Spanish in 1494. But for centuries before that, the Native Ame ...
2222
Dibyendu Banerjee
05/04/2021
The United States Capitol, popularly known as the Capitol, located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, DC, is one of the ...
2432
Dibyendu Banerjee
02/04/2021
Museo Nacional del Prado, which commemorated its 200th anniversary in 2019, is the crowning glory of the City of Madrid, housing one of the richest and comp ...
3239
Dibyendu Banerjee & Sudipta Banerjee
31/03/2021
A cyclone is a small portion of the atmosphere in which the pressure is lowest in the centre. It is a small low pressure system with winds blowing anticlock ...
2955
Dibyendu Banerjee
30/03/2021
The Emu, the second tallest bird in the world, followed by the Ostrich, can reach up to 5 feet to 5feet 6 inches in height and is the fourth or fifth.
2933
Dibyendu Banerjee
27/03/2021
Known for her natural beauty, and widely acclaimed for her intelligent performance, Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann was born on 16 December 1938 in Tokyo.
2239
Dibyendu Banerjee
24/03/2021
Here is the graceful and fiery Cleopatra, the wonderful and flaming Egyptian queen, created by the Italian sculptor Antonio Balzico in the 1870s,
2279
Dibyendu Banerjee
21/03/2021
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque was named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the first president and the ruler of Abu Dhabi.
3033
Dibyendu Banerjee
19/03/2021
Often referred to as the Russian Versailles, Peterhof Palace is a series of palaces and gardens, commissioned by Peter the Great, located in a town named Pe ...
4143
Dibyendu Banerjee
10/03/2021
La Circassienne au Bain, a painting by Merry-Joseph Blondel, is closely associated with the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
09/03/2021
Adorned with beautiful works of art, filled with light and music, and rich with history and lore, the Washington National Cathedral, the third-largest churc ...
2443
Dibyendu Banerjee
08/03/2021
The non-descriptive three-storey building housing the Burmese (Myanmar) Buddhist temple is located at 10 A, Eden Hospital Road.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/03/2021
It may seem macabre, but the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo in Sicily hosts one of the most bizarre and weird tourist attractions of the world.
2029
Dibyendu Banerjee
06/03/2021
Tiananmen Square, locally known as Tiananmen Guangchang, an open city square in the city centre of Beijing, is named after the massive Tiananmen, the Gate o ...
2346
Dibyendu Banerjee
05/03/2021
By the 8th century, part of the abundant city of Baia was gradually swallowed by the sea due to local volcanic activity.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
04/03/2021
Rabindranath Tagore’s play Dak Ghar, or the Post Office was performed by the children of an orphanage run by Janusz Korczak, in Warsaw Ghetto.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/03/2021
The marble-clad Lotus Temple, the Baha’i House of Worship, resembling the shape of a lotus, is a symbol of excellence in modern Indian architecture.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
02/03/2021
The Kakapo is a large, flightless, forest-dwelling, nocturnal parrot, with a pale owl-like face, a large grey beak, along with finely blotched yellow-green ...
